Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. Remember, it's not the level , but whether it is a match to your audience.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

In 2012, TechSoup Global, in collaboration with our partners around the world, conducted a survey of nonprofits, charities, NGOs, and social benefit organizations around the globe. Our survey found that lack of knowledge is the biggest barrier to additional cloud adoption, cited by 86 percent of the global respondents.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Just in time for TechSoup's Social Media September September , our friends at Idealware have released an update to The Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide. TechSoup's own social media team weigh in on the report and offer their advice for making wise social media decisions. Simply Measured touts.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Ron Schultz's latest book, Creating Good Work Creating Good Work arrives at a critical time for the social entrepreneurial movement. We see tremendous innovations in social enterprise, but these are merely part of larger, global changes in the ways in which society organizes itself to create public goods.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

The last thing we do is measure our market share in the social media space. Of all the mass communications tools your organization is using (website e-newsletters, social networking sites, mobile), which is resulting in the most online dollars being raised (directly or indirectly)? Anything else?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

I was honored to be the keynote speaker for the Bay Area Microsoft/TechSoup Global Connection Day on Monday. TechSoup Global was the co-sponsor and it was great to catch up with long-time colleague, Marnie Webb , Co-Ceo. And of course, you can use a spreadsheet to plan out your conversation starters! Connecting With Colleagues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

In April, I blogged about HSUS "Stop Canada's Cruel Seal Hunt" campaign over at blogher and my blog and last December on my blog as part of a roundup of articles on using social networking spaces for campaigns. How much staff time did it take to incorporate the social media tools? tools for online advocacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. The new social economy includes all the ways we use our private resources to create social good. But expect how you report and measure impact with the social business sector.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Digital: What Every Charity Leader Should Know features insight from influential leaders in the nonprofit sector including Marnie Webb, co-CEO of TechSoup Global; Beth Kanter , author of Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ; and Martha Lane Fox, chair of Go ON UK. More Resources.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2022

The social network and the increasingly ubiquitous use of these technologies means the transformation of connecting with donors in the future will likely have to be done in some digital form during their development cycle. For example, Barack Obama reaches over 100 million people with each tweet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Akhtar Badshah, Senior Director of Global Community Affairs for Microsoft kicked off the day with an interactive presentation about the trends in technology. Photo by Microsoft Global Citizenship. What people in the room were most hungry for were tips and steps on listening and measurement.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

It was a broad gathering including everyone from consultants to students to startups – and nonprofits ranging from the San Francisco Bay Area focused Stride Center to the global fundraising platform Kiva.org. Think Strategically About Your Social Media Presence.

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Forum One

MARCH 18, 2010

" The session featured a facilitated conversation about how hospitals and health care providers are using new media and social networking software to support their primary objectives — treatment, research, education and outreach, and patient-provider communication. For me, one of the most valuable sessions was " E.R.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 3, 2012

I recently got my copy of Measuring the Networked Nonprofit by Beth Kanter and Katie Delahaye Paine. In the foreward, Beth and Katie say that “measurement is the secret sauce; we provide the recipe.” Before I worked at NTEN, I managed the NetSquared program at TechSoup Global. ” And that they do!

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 2, 2009

’ – Jonathan Waddingham from JustGiving has a great post up today: "The advent of Facebook fan pages has been great news for brands wanting to create communities without having to build their own social network. " Is Your Organization Human Enough for Social Media? You have proven it works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

The book looks at how ICT can help solve global poverty issues in a range of fields, including disaster relief, health education, micro finance, and education. It is filled with great examples and stories from around the world. .&# I read the manuscript over the summer so I could blurb this book. The book is available on Amazon.

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NTEN

JUNE 27, 2012

With so much information coming at us from social networks, web sites, emails, and other digital sources, we can no longer afford to just whine about it – content curation can empower us to win the battle over too much information. There’s so much of it that it is now measured in exabytes, which is equal to a quintillion bytes.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

You’ll discuss measurable objectives for the team to reach and draft the priorities for each of these objectives. Real-Time Nonprofit Strategic Planning Model The real-time nonprofit strategic planning model is useful when your nonprofit is in the midst of a crisis, like an economic recession or national/global catastrophe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

There’s some much of it that it is now measured in exabytes which is equal to a quintillion bytes. The creation and sharing of content on social media and social networks is contributing to this information overload.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The 2009 NMC Symposium for the Future , the fourteenth in the NMC’s Series of Virtual Symposia (October 27-29th), will explore actual and potential applications of technology that could impact issues of global importance over the next five years and beyond. Some of the future has already arrived, so may be talk about those examples.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

" The blur between our personal and professional identities on social networking sites may seem all too obvious, but the issue is becoming more prevalent as we use sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn as professional networking tools. Topics can include: Introduction to social media. So what can we do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Stephen Downes describes the difficulty of measuring ROI of E-Learning with the best quote yet, "Measuring learning is still like measuring friendship. " What do you think about measuring social media? Which is worse, email overload or social networking fatigue. I wholeheartedly agree !

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Tech Soup

JUNE 12, 2013

New Orleans, LA: Networking Happy Hour + Going Away Event for One of Our Own @ Booty’s. Philadelphia, PA: Crowdsourcing Change: Applying the Social Web to Important Philly Nonprofits. Toronto, Canada: Measuring & Engaging your Email List. Baltimore, MD: May Tech & Social Change Meetup: Website Redesigns.

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NCE Social Media

MAY 18, 2009

Global peer to peer relationships – People can now connect from a variety of locations on a peer basis without the need for long formalities that can sometimes work as walls to keep people out rather than protected. Agility – Back in the day, the shoe cobbler, blacksmith and tailor would measure and make for your specific needs.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. Another example of indirect content is that of social networks. What’s Next? More and more, now we can.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

If you’ve set up any social media experiments of your own, either representing yourself or the organization, measure your work and the success to share back (how has using those tools increased volunteers, grown your email list, saved you time on promotion, etc.). Social Networks for Fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

For context, please see this guest post by Bonin Bough, The Global Director of Social Media for Pepsi, published earlier this month. Since building our social networking tactics was still on the “to do” list for 2010, we had to pull together a social marketing campaign on the fly. and measurement of our tweets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Social Media: Adoption, Strategy, and Measuring Success ZUP4Nonprofits has a two-part post ( pt. 2 ) that discusses how to lay the groundwork for board signoff on an organization's social media in initiatives. KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools. asks Rich Reeder.

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

Peggy shared her experience as the Executive Director of WiserEarth , the Social Network for Sustainability. They helped us understand where people wanted help (documenting and discovering great local solutions) and where they didn’t (joining another social network). Two Community Stories. LikeMinded.

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Forum One

MARCH 12, 2008

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" We use a file size measurement -- video files must be under 300 MB.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" We use a file size measurement -- video files must be under 300 MB.

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Forum One

JULY 23, 2008

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Forum One

AUGUST 3, 2008

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites. Michelle Murrain adds that she won't sign up until the content is more compelling and the social graph is open. Unfortunately, not the best thing for global nonprofits. Allison Fine asks, " Do most people really fine web2.0

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Forum One

JULY 9, 2008

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Influence Social Media Internet Web 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

Why should we measure story in a new way? To do this we have to be able to measure story in a new way. It enables organization to show their constituents that the organization is engaged – the organization measures its impact based upon the content of stories. Alan Deutschman – Walk the Walk. Then what it means is extracted.

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